Funeral for German Lutheran pioneer Mrs Funck
After a week of heat induced illness 84 year old Mrs Henry Funck dies at her home. Funeral Saturday at 4 pm from the German Lutheran church with Rev George Meier. she was a respected Muscatine native and mother of eight, survived by three children.
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Henry Funck
German Lutheran Church
George Meier
Hesse-Darmstadt
Germany
United States
St. Louis
I Burlington
Muscatine
Funck
George Adam
Ada Cornelia
Frederick Daut
Kate Funck
Chicago
Lizzie
Clara Hine
Henry S
Henrietta
Cook
Musser & Co's Bank
Ladies Aid Society
Pleasant Montpelier Wedding Unites Bennett Family Son A W Murphy
Miss Luella Bennett wed A. W. Murphy of La Fayette Indiana at the Bennett home in Montpelier on July 24. Rev C E Fitzsimmons officiated. Guests from Rock Island Montpelier and Iowa City attended as the newlyweds depart for their future home in Indiana.
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Robert Bennett
Montpelier Township
Luella Bennett
A. W. Murphy
la Fayette
Indiana
C. E. Fitzsimmons
Blue Grass
Rock Island
Hartman
Montpelier
Watts
Elroy
Isaac Myers
Carpenter
Iowa City
Murphy
Paralyzing Coffee Replaced by Postum Aid
Mrs J Walford of Castalia Ohio reports paralysis symptoms and sleeplessness from coffee. After switching to Postum Food Coffee her family, including a young boy with nervous spells and a sister with headaches, experienced improved health and better sleep.
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Chittle Boy
Court Square Band Concert Presents Classic Selections
This evening the weekly Court Square concert features Pauttet’s Band performing a varied program. H O Wheeler Overture Orpheus Goblin Frolic March Electric Wave Whistling Rufus and popular dance medleys complete the lively lineup with waltzes and marches.
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Court Square
Pauttet
H. Mackie Goblin
Lil and Lew
Georgia
Bettigee
Rufus
Calanthe Abe Galep
Krave
Reverend Peel to Lead Services in Letts and Grandview
Reverend D. Peel of Oxford Iowa will occupy the pulpit at the local church in Letts at 8 p m on July 28 and preach at Grandview at 3 p m on the same day both times inviting parishioners to attend the services.
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2. D. Peel
Oxford
Iowa
Letts
Grandview
For sale three months Fred Koehler s old
A compact sale note lists three months old French white silk S003 catalog item from Fred Koehler. Details are limited in the fragment.
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Fred Koehler
Hints for Farmers Cabbage as Stock Feed
The piece notes cabbage yields high fodder per acre and is very digestible, good for milk. Strong soil and careful cultivation needed, storage limited. feeding stumps or spoiled leaves spoils milk and meat. It compares cabbage and turnips in nutritive value, warns against using waste milk and dishwater in pork production due to disease risks and losses from contaminated feed and hog deaths.
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Johnston
Grapes Growers Face Trellis and Pruning Choices
The article compares grape training methods with the Munson system rated best for convenience. It discounts wire netting and overhead arbors as poor options. It notes varieties differ in training needs from single post support to no training, with pruning being essential and sometimes relentless.
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Munson
Mexico
Controlling Maggot Infested Onion Fields With Pigs and Fire
The author discusses onion maggot control options, noting kerosene emulsion fails and daily field culling plus burning or feeding wilted plants to hogs as the surest method. Advice includes consulting neighbors on hog management and pairing pig production with field sanitation to turn farm waste into profit.
Crowing forest trees and optimal seed sowing guidance
The article advises gathering seed at ripening and sowing when it would self shed, stressing native trees for local growing. It notes that six apple varieties suffice for a commercial orchard and argues fewer varieties can be better, urging proper local selection and warning against overplanting many kinds.
Market notes show potato price rise and heat waves
Local markets report Timothy up to 12 dollars and potatoes at 1.00 per bushel. Hogs and calves remain weak as farmers push stock to market. Plums sell at 10 cents per box or three boxes for a quarter. Muscatine County crops suffer from heat. Fort Madison rain saves corn though with wind damage. Kansas endures 100 degree heat while water scarcity grows in several towns.
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New Timothy
Muscatine County
Kansies
Kansas
Missouri
Graham
Ifc
Tnd
Movable Market Report From Muscatine Grain and Livestock Prices
Muscatine market notes show grain and produce prices with oats rye hay and corn values, plus live stock figures for hogs cattle calves sheep and poultry. Retail price ranges for flour sugar coffee eggs lard and vegetables follow, noting market unsteadiness and multiple per unit quotes.
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Maes
Immer
L. Cohn
East Second ST
Neral
Mrs. Funck
Altheim
Sycamore St
Beon
Geo. W. Lindle
Mulberry Street
Oscar Grossheim
wWaCentral
Funston
H. O. Wheeler
Offenbach
Grewior Grapes
New Hay
Fort Madison
Muscatine Markets
Leibbrand, Ryan & Co
McCall
E. Second St
California
E. G. Barnard
Hara
Pocahontas
River News
River Bulletin
Eisael
Mississippi River
Dubuque
LeClaire
Muccatine
Davenport
Burlington
East Hi
Frank Slattery
East Hill
Muscatine Lumber & Box Company
Excelsior Company
Second and
Mulberry
Otttime
C.C.D. Groce
C. Kneese, Prop
Chas. A. Milli
J.G. Gunzen
B. W. Raymond
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